The couple, who are expecting a second child, called the demands of their business “not healthy for our family.”

In addition, Wilson recently became the pastry chef at The Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia.

“We’re really proud of what we did,” Wilson said Tuesday. “But we think it is time to move on.”

The news comes almost eight months after the bakery reduced its retail business hours to Fridays and Saturdays in order to concentrate on creating special-order cakes.

Wilson said those changes were to make the business more “family friendly,” but they were not enough. The couple even thought of opening in a smaller space, he said.

The Vineland Downtown Improvement District owns the building at 601 E. Landis Ave.

“We’ve been talking to people who have an interest,” Sandy Forosisky, the city’s economic development director, said Tuesday.

The first floor formerly was divided into two rental areas. The bakery expanded into the other space in mid-2010 with financial assistance from Vineland.

The city loaned the bakery money for its equipment and its disposition is unclear. The bakery owes a balance of $33,600, Forosisky said.

The Sweet Life was one of several businesses that was part of the Restaurant Row initiative, which offered loans to attract eateries to set up shop on Landis Avenue.

Bain’s Deli, one of the first to join the program, closed in early 2012 before reopening under new control. The CrepeMaker shut down that same year, and Mori’s at Landis Theater stopped operations last month.

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